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Toolkit Startup is a meeting of young designers. Its purpose is to convey knowledge, skills and technical knowhow on visual communication and graphic design. It is addressed to students and recent graduates of graphic design departments in state or private schools, but it is also open to professionals in the field of visual communication, at any level of experience, who wish to broaden their knowledge. The meeting includes a series of talks by renowned and experienced professionals from the field of applied arts, focused on technical and applied knowledge; also, there are workshops intended to provide participants with hands-on experience and training on select subjects. At the same time, Toolkit Startup organizes and also hosts exhibitions of visual communications works, both from Greek designers and from noteworthy international organizations.
Toolkit Startup is organized by Design Toolkit, a non-profit whose main goal is to organize informative, educational and promotional activities and events related to visual communication, graphic design, and the applied arts in general, in Greece and abroad. Its purpose is to create activities that permit and encourage the establishment of collaborative and interactive relationships, the exchange of knowledge and creation of knowhow, and the recognition and promotion of creative output.
The first event organized by Design Toolkit was Toolkit Startup, held in April 2014 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Despite the level of competence of graphic design departments and schools in our country, young people wishing to work as professional designers often lack practical tools and knowledge – and more importantly, they lack the connection between their formal skills and the exigencies of the market. In response, we set out to create a toolkit, that would be available to young people as they start up their careers. And so Toolkit Startup was born.
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Poster exhibition on breast cancer awareness and prevention.
Toolkit Startup is a meeting of young designers. Its purpose is to convey knowledge, skills and technical knowhow on visual communication and graphic design. It is addressed to students and recent graduates of graphic design departments in state or private schools, but it is also open to professionals in the field of visual communication, at any level of experience, who wish to broaden their knowledge. The meeting includes a series of talks by renowned and experienced professionals from the field of applied arts, focused on technical and applied knowledge; also, there are workshops intended to provide participants with hands-on experience and training on select subjects. At the same time, Toolkit Startup organizes and also hosts exhibitions of visual communications works, both from Greek designers and from noteworthy international organizations.
Toolkit Startup is organized by Design Toolkit, a non-profit whose main goal is to organize informative, educational and promotional activities and events related to visual communication, graphic design, and the applied arts in general, in Greece and abroad. Its purpose is to create activities that permit and encourage the establishment of collaborative and interactive relationships, the exchange of knowledge and creation of knowhow, and the recognition and promotion of creative output.
The first event organized by Design Toolkit was Toolkit Startup, held in April 2014 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Despite the level of competence of graphic design departments and schools in our country, young people wishing to work as professional designers often lack practical tools and knowledge – and more importantly, they lack the connection between their formal skills and the exigencies of the market. In response, we set out to create a toolkit, that would be available to young people as they start up their careers. And so Toolkit Startup was born.
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Poster exhibition on breast cancer awareness and prevention.
Within the framework of Toolkit Startup 2, Design Toolkit is organizing a poster exhibition entitled “W/Design for Life”. We invited women professional graphic designers from all over Greece to design posters on the subject of breast cancer, for the purpose of raising awareness and promoting prevention. This exhibition intends to highlight an important social issue that concerns all women (and not just women), locally and globally, and for which, especially in Greece, the public is not nearly as informed as it should be. We believe that through visual communication we can contribute to raising the public’s awareness and to changing attitudes on issues such as breast cancer.
The exhibition was held with the invaluable assistance of the Thessaloniki chapter of “Alma Zois” – the Pan-Hellenic Association of Women with Breast Cancer and under the auspices of the Greek Graphic Designers Association.
I participate in this exhibition with the following two posters.
Saluting the 30-year anniversary of the Greek Graphic Designers Association, within the framework of Toolkit Startup 2, Design Toolkit organized a poster exhibition entitled “e/Design Your Expression”. Accomplished designers throughout Greece where called to create posters of their view on freedom of expression.
Freedom of expression is the right of every human being to use speech, their body or any other means in order to express their personal positions and views without interference, censorship or repression, State-imposed or otherwise. This right is also an “umbrella” that extends protection to other basic human liberties, such as self-determination, sexual identity, and of course the freedom of the Press.
Our era reminds us frequently, as with the very recent and tragic events of the deadly attacks at the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on January 7 of this year, that it is important to reflect on our basic individual rights – what they mean, how we utilize them and how we protect them. This exhibition will offer a forum for such a reflection.
The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Greek Graphic Designers Association (http://www.ggda.gr/).
I participate in this exhibition with the following two posters.
The first poster is a translation of the famous Voltaire's quote: "I might disagree with your opinion, but I am willing to give my life for your right to express it"
The poster has the translation of the quote in Arabian and the explanasion in French.
Thank you!
